Comments on: If Apache fails to start after a reboot

By: itauthor

itauthor — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:52:00 +0000

Glad that helped. Thanks for commenting.

By: P4ul

P4ul — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 06:32:26 +0000

thanks, i never would have guessed skype was causing it

By: itauthor

itauthor — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:13:24 +0000

Thanks for posting that info Matovolwa

By: Matovolwa

Matovolwa — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:03:04 +0000

On my side, the event description was 'The Apache service named reported the following error: >>>Unable to open logs'.
I stpped the ISS Admin service so i was able to successfully start the McAfee ePolicy Orcherstrator Server.

By: Mark van Alphen

Mark van Alphen — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:23:20 +0000

Thanks, this helped me.
It was exact the same problem.

By: Guido Diemer

Guido Diemer — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:18:40 +0000

In my case it was an IP Check monitor driven by FIREBIRD.ORG

By: Alistair

Alistair — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:12:21 +0000

It's a long time since I looked at this, but I think you need to try and track down what's using port 443. Try turning any likely services off until you find the culprit.

By: Girish

Girish — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:17:16 +0000

I havn't started IIS Admin still in event viewer it throws 3299 event id, what to do plz suggest

By: Maruf

Maruf — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:13:34 +0000

Thanks!

Skype was my culprit...
The tutorial helped a lot.. Thank you very much

By: Bjarne K

Bjarne K — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:24:15 +0000

Thanks!

I had the same problem, and discovered that the service IIS admin was startet (for unknown reasons).

This site saved me a lot of time, thanks!

By: Alistair

Alistair — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:22:32 +0000

The problem is usually that something else is using port 80. In the above example it was IIS, but it might also have been Skype, or something else.

The best way to find out is to do:

Start > Programs > Apache Friends > XAMPP > Port check

This opens a command shell window and lists the ports used by XAMPP components. If port 80 is currently being used by something other than apache.exe then that's your problem.

If the program using port 80 is inetinfo.exe then stop the World Wide Web Publishing Service in Windows' Services dialog box.